Course Calendar

Please note that this calendar is designed to be flexible: we may make changes along the way, depending on your interests and the needs of the class. Should you miss a class, you are responsible for knowing about—and adjusting for—any changes by getting notes and other materials from a classmate. Professional protocols and collegiality call for you to alert us if you’ll be missing on a day when we’re having a workshop or when you are scheduled to present materials.

In class: NYT Page A1 and Sunday Review sectionDue: article summary on “How to Celebrate Eid al-Adha Like an American” — bring it in digital form, emailed to yourself, or on your laptop; we’ll need the digital version so that we can post them to your Digication site, which we’ll work on in class.

Due #1: post your revised initial, first summary in précis form, and keep both versions; we want to be able to see your original summary and the revised version, in précis form. Here’s one possible organizing principle for that.

In class: NYT, as assigned In class: For class discussion, we’ll focus on p. A1 and the Sunday Review section — come prepared to discuss.Due: Rhetorical précis #3 — “What I Learned From Executing Two Men”

Week 3 Reading and writing rhetorically: ethos, pathos, & logos

Thursday 9/22

In class: NYT, as assigned Due: Rhetorical précis #4 Everyone should read the front section and the Sunday Review section; you should also be seeking out sections that tend to interest you more than others — Sports, Business, Arts, Style & Fashion — try to note stories, trends, and writers that interest you.

In class: We will begin class by going around the room and hearing an informal 60-90 second overview of an interesting article that you read in the Sunday NYT — any section, any topic — why it was important and relevant to you, and why it should be important and relevant to us. It’s a great way to get a tour of the Sunday paper, and to find out what people are interested in.

Page One: Inside the New York Times — no longer on Netflix, but is available via Hulu and Amazon Prime — free trials are available for both.

What we’re looking for is your experience reading the essay — how it made you feel, not making corrections or arguing back. A phenomenological-reading peer review is a description, so we expect to hear you saying things like,